English 105: The Credible Writer (Carmichael)

Finding Books

Use NUcat (the online catalog) to identify books that the library has, as well as journal titles, microfilm, videos, and other catalogued material. Books are excellent sources of overviews and substantial material on a particular topic, but do not necessarily reflect the most current events. NUcat will also tell you whether material is in the main library or in another Northwestern University library. More information on searching NUcat can be found in the online guide How to Find a Book

Finding Articles

Use journal article databases to track search for articles in journals and magazines. Articles usually have a specific focus, are relatively short, and can be very current. Some databases, particularly the general ones, include the full text of the article.

Examples of general databases:
Academic Search Premier
Academic OneFile
JSTOR Full-text of important scholarly journals in many disciplines. WATCH OUT: Most journals in JSTOR do NOT include the most recent 3-5 years.

Use discipline specific databases to dig deep in the scholarly literature of a particular field of study.
ATLA Religion Database
Business Source Premier
ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center
Gender Studies Database
General Science Abstracts
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Medline
MLA International Bibliography (Literature)
PsycINFO
Sociological Abstracts
World Shakespeare Bibliography
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Newspapers and Current Events
LexisNexis Academic (Includes current New York Times but NOT Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Ill. : 1963)
CQ Researcher

Polling and Public Opinion
Gallup Brain
Polling the Nations

Statistics
LexisNexis Statistical

More statistics resources

You can find more databases under the "Databases" tab on the library's home page.


Some databases will give only a citation for an article. To find the full-text of the article click the purple "Find it @ NU" button. This searches across all databases to find the full article.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Credo Reference An online collection of authoritative dictionaries
Gale Virtual Reference Library Collection of online subject encyclopedias

Baseball : an encyclopedia of popular culture. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO c2000.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating) 796.35709 R555b

Berkshire encyclopedia of human-computer interaction. Berkshire Pub. Group, 2004.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating) 004.019 B513

The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science. 3rd ed. Wiley, 2001.

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world. Thomson/Gale, 2004.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating) 909.09767 E56

 Encyclopedia of political thought. Facts on File, 2001.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating) 320.03 E563

Encyclopedia of psychology. Oxford University Press, 2000.
MAIN Reference (Encyclopedia case) (Non-circulating) 150.3 E564
SCHAFFNER Reference (Non-circulating) 150.3 E564

Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd ed. Macmillan Reference USA, 2005.
MAIN Reference (Encyclopedia case) (Non-circulating) 200.321 E56 2005

Encyclopedia of women and gender : sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender. Academic Press, 2001.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating) 305.403 E56

Encyclopedia of World Cultures G.K. Hall, 1991
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating) 306.03 E56
SCHAFFNER Reference (Non-circulating) 306.03 E56

St. James encyclopedia of popular culture. St. James Press, 2000.
MAIN Reference (Encyclopedia case) (Non-circulating) 973.9 S774

Women’s studies encyclopedia Greenwood Press, 1999
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating) 305.403 W872 1999

More dictionaries and encyclopedias

Custom EndNote styles for annotated bibliographies. These styles put the information in the "Research Notes" field into your bibliography. One version alos includes the "URL" field. The other does not.
MLA with URL
MLA without URL

Save these files into the "Styles" folder of your EndNote program.

Need Help?

Get in touch with librarians at the Reference Desk or contact me directly.

Scott Garton
Reference Department
Email: s-garton@northwestern.edu
Office phone: 847.491-3825
Reference desk phone: 847.491.7656